06 PM | 10 Apr

Women in Engineering and IT Hands on Day Program for Girls! #girls #gurls #engineering #geekgirl

This year’s Women in Engineering and IT Hands on Day Program will be held at UTS Broadway Campus, (Sydney) [Australia] for schools on Friday  27 April and Friday 17 August : the aim is to make links for female students between the experience of technology studies, practice and research, and providing information on specific fields, courses and scholarships for school leavers.

It is a full day of Hands on Fun and most importantly, it is ‘GIRLS Only!’ Please read more about past Hands on Days here:

http://utswomeninengineeringandit.blogspot.com.au/search/label/HandsOn

To support planning for 2012 you are invited to encourage your daughters and nieces to attend and we encourage you  to discuss this event with their relevant school departments (Science/Maths/Technology/HSIE) and take advantage of the opportunity to register up to 30 students from these cohorts (Years 8-12) for both Hands on Days. We especially welcome students of diverse backgrounds, areas of interest and aptitudes. As well as those with aptitude in Maths and Sciences, successful engineers and IT professionals can start out with strong interests and ability in Geography, Geology, Design & Technology, Visual Arts and Agriculture. Students can attend by themselves if they have parents’ permission and the school is not willing to bring a group. We will be responsible for the welfare of students between the hours of 8:30am-3:15pm.

Previous Hands on Days have engaged many students with the prospects of engineering and IT as a choice of study and career. It is also a great opportunity for high school students to network with current engineering and IT students and hear from industry professionals, as they gain insights into university life.

If you would like to download a registration form, please click below or contact Karenmay.Belista@uts.edu.au for further information

http://www.feit.uts.edu.au/women/WIEIT-handsonday-application.pdf

Have fun!!!

 

05 PM | 22 Mar

Language of Life: #Biomimicry in #Architecture, Art, Design and Science #Sydney #binarism #geekgirl

Language of Life – Biomimicry in Architecture, Art, Design and Science

What is the song a hummingbird sings? What do graffiti artists and street cats have in common? What formations are shared between a microcosm and the universe? Can buildings be interactive?

Biomimicry seeks to solve human problems using ideas from our biological world. Deeply embedded in nature are formulas that aid in finding solutions in our everyday lives. The exhibition ‘Language of Life’ showcases a shared interest between architects, visual artists, fashion designers and scientists in a collection of works that not only transcribe nature into their own fields, but identify and interpret what is useful to them, opening a conversation between these different fields.

Lucian Gormley and Hugo Raggett challenge the notion of architecture as static with their adaptive constructions of interactive hexagonal cells. Guy Morgan interprets the night sky in his vast paintings and video works that play with the psychology of vision, drawing out the colour that is there, but invisible to us at low light. Nicola Coady, combining two forms of culture, explores microbe colonies as living decorative devices by coating lampshades in yoghurt and allowing nature to take its course.

In contemporary design, architecture and the visual arts, we are increasingly working with material phenomena, interactive behaviour and complex, interdependent, structural relationships that are deeply embedded in nature. These works interrogate the familiar fabric of our existences that deem us human. Between nature and nurture, between artifice and art, they challenge our notion of the human/nature binarism.

Language enables conversation, by initiating communication, and this is what the exhibition aspires to do, opening a platform for interdisciplinary communication. ‘Language of Life’ explores artistic, technological, computational and philosophical trajectories through observations of natural expressions and biomimetic processes. The exhibition collates installations, paintings, animations, experiments and devices developed in different disciplines of the University of Sydney: Sydney College of the Arts; The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning; Medical Science, and the School of Engineering. Curated by Dr Dagmar Reinhardt, Lecturer of Digital Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, and Greg Shapley, Verge Gallery.

WHAT: Language of Life: Biomimicry in Architecture, Art, Design and Science (art exhibition) WHO: Artists include: Caitlin Abbott, Eduardo Barata, Iain Blampied, Nicola Coady, Michiru Cohen, Armando Chant, Kate Dunn, Lisa Fathalla, Lucian Gormley, Tyrone Jandey, Flora Mavrommati, Guy Morgan, Luke O’Donnell, Hugo Raggett, Donna Sgro, Ian Stewart, Alexandra Smith, Will Swan, Sara Sweet and Elmar Trefz. Curated by Dagmar Reinhardt and Greg Shapley WHEN: Opening March 29, 6pm. March 30-April 6 (Monday-Friday 10am-5pm) WHERE: Verge Gallery, City Road, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

CONTACT: Greg Shapley on (02) 9562-6218 or email g.shapley@usu.usyd.edu.au

02 PM | 13 May

Snapshot – ‘Darlinghurst Eats Its Young’ – part of the Left Coast Festival

Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:00pm – 8:00pm SEDITION-the barbershop 275 Victoria St Darlinghurst Sydney, Australia View Map

Description

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there” – LP Hartley, The Go-Between

Big hair, big pants, and long gone buildings.

Recently a friend put up a lot of scanned photos on Facebook. They were all of Sydney in the 80s. The hair, the clothes, the look of the past; they got a lot of attention from people, some just liked the aged look of old photos, the look you cant get with digital pics.

Why do people load old fashioned ring tones for their iPhone? What is it that makes people nostalgic for an era they didn’t know? What makes the look and sounds of ‘analogue’ so appealing?

The snapshots on show at SEDITION show a pre digital version of an almost disappeared city. A Sydney of cheap housing; a Sydney yet to be gentrified.

Come and check out the installation in SEDITION’s window – a scrolling view of images courtesy of Maggie Woods, David Art Wales, Miranda Douglas, Bruce Carter, Rohan Glasgow, Mandy Vuksanovic and you…?

IF YOU HAVE ANY SNAPSHOTS OF INNER SYDNEY IN THE 80s and you’d like to exhibit them as part of Snapshot@The Left Coast Festival contact  prestonm@tpg.com.au

…and appearing live The NOISE will be performing from 7pm Snapshot is a part of the Left Coast Festival – (12th May – 30th June) being held at Sedition barbershop on Victoria St.

10 PM | 05 Aug

Fantastic Planet Film Festival extended deadline

Fantastic Planet: Sydney’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival reminds filmmakers and screenwriters to submit their film or script soon.

ENTRY DEADLINE: 14/08/2009

The mission of Fantastic Planet Film Festival is to seek out and encourage bold speculative films that explore other imagined worlds, universes, and realities – new celluloid glimpses of alternative futures, pasts, and presents – and to showcase this fantastic cargo of cinema to audiences in Sydney, Australia. The festival was founded by the team behind A Night of Horror International Film Festival (Sydney, Australia’s leading horror film event).

The Withoutabox extended deadline is August 14, 2009.

More details are available at the festival’s official website: www.fantasticplanetfilmfestival.com